Wednesday, April 20, 2016

I heard that in 2020 Arizona could go the way of Colorado and voters may not be allowed to vote in Presidential Primary. I did a little research and LO and BEHOLD , Yes it could end up becoming a reality. As of today it looks like it's being held on the Senate for a floor vote. HB 2567
- Repeals State Presidential Primary Election Process - Key Vote

Vote to pass a bill that
repeals the state presidential preference primary election, effective following
the 2016 election.

Highlights:

·Repeals the requirement to hold a presidential preference
election on March 15, of each year in which the President of the United States
is elected (Sec. 4).

·Requires the chairman of a national political party to provide
the secretary of state certain information no later than September 1, in a
presidential election year, including the following information (Sec. 5):

·The nominee’s name, residence address, and mailing address;

· The name of the
political party that nominated the nominees; and

·The exact manner for printing the nominees’ names on the ballot.

·Appropriates $6.1 million from the state general fund to the
secretary of state to reimburse expenses incurred by counties for the
administration of the 2016 presidential preference election (Sec. 8).

·The bill allows political parties to pay for a primary if they
want one in Arizona.

·Sen. Steve Farley, D-Tucson, suggested a way future primaries
could be paid for.

·"If the parties of either kind decide they don’t like this
bill, I think it would be a really good idea if they asked the presidential
candidates themselves to underwrite it next time," Farley said. "That
way we can bring all that money going to other states to pay for our own stuff
that they are benefiting from.”

·SB 1486 is sponsored by Senate President Andy Biggs and has the
backing of Secretary of State Michele Reagan.

·The proposal did not affect March 2016 presidential
preference primary, which is paid for by the state.

ARIZONA STATE SENATE

Fifty-Second Legislature,
Second Regular Session

FACT SHEET FOR S.B. 1486

presidential preference election; appropriation; repeal

Purpose

Repeals statute
requiring that a presidential preference election (PPE) be held and
appropriates monies from the state General Fund (GF) in FY 2016 to the
Secretary of State for the purpose of reimbursing expenses incurred by counties
for administration of the 2016 presidential preference election.

Background

A.R.S. § 16-241 states that a presidential preference
election shall be held each year in which the President of the United States is
elected to give qualified electors the opportunity to express their preference
for the presidential candidate of the political party indicated as their
preference by the record of their registration.

Prior to 2012, A.R.S. § 16-250 required the Secretary of
State to reimburse counties at a rate of $1.25 per active registered voter in
that county on January 1 of the PPE year. Laws 2012, Chapter 361 required
the Secretary of State to reimburse counties for 100 percent of the costs
incurred for each PPE. PPE elections differ from all-mail and traditional
elections in that they have a separate ballot for each recognized political
party and no other election may appear on the PPE ballot.

The FY
2016 Government BRB returned the reimbursement rate to $1.25 per active
registered voter, the rate established in statute prior to Laws 2012, Chapter
361.

The impact to the state GF
associated with this legislation is the amount of the appropriation.

Provisions

1. Repeals current statute requiring
that a PPE be held.

2.
Establishes a new process for submittal of nominees’ information for a
political party’s national convention. On completion of a national
convention and the nomination of a party’s candidates for president and
vice-president, requires the chairman of the national political party to
provide the following information:

a) each
nominee’s name, residence address and mailing address;

b) the name
of the political party that nominated the nominees; and

c) the exact
manner for printing the nominees’ names on the ballot.

3.
Exempts political party nominees for president and vice-president from
compliance with primary election law as a prerequisite to having the
candidate’s name on the official ballot.

4.
Appropriates $6,096,767 from the state GF in FY 2015-2016 to the Secretary of
State, in addition to monies already appropriated, for the purpose of
reimbursing expenses incurred by counties for administration of the 2016
presidential preference election.

5. Requires the Secretary of State
to reimburse counties based on the number of active registered voters in that
county on January 1, 2016, as follows:

Number of Official

Active Voters

Amount per Active Registered Voter

450,000 or more

$2.50 or actual expenses incurred up to the amount of estimated
cost, whichever is less

35,000 to less than 450,000

$3.00 or actual expenses incurred up to the amount of estimated
cost, whichever is less

Less than 35,000

$3.50 or actual expenses incurred up to the amount of estimated
cost, whichever is less

6. Requires a county to submit its
certified claims to the Secretary of State not later than June 1, 2016.

c) any
expenditure that is not reimbursable as prescribed by the State of Arizona
accounting manual issued by the Department of Administration general accounting
office and in effect on January 1, 2016.

8. Requires the
Secretary of State to submit a report by October 1, 2016, to the Joint
Legislative Budget Committee and the Office of Strategic Planning and Budgeting
regarding reimbursements made.

9. Changes the heading of Title 16,
Chapter 2, Article 4, Arizona Revised Statutes, from PRESIDENTIAL
PREFERENCE ELECTION to NATIONAL POLITICAL PARTY PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATES.

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This is another outrageous; On our face act of disrespect to us as voters and believers of our Rights as U.S. citizens! How dare do those representatives think first of their pocketbooks before the interest of its citizens!This comment is in regards to article on Web stating that Arizona is planning to ignore citizen votes at primaries as did Colorado to support Cruz of whom we have just learned; is not qualified to run for U.S. president because he was a Canadian cities email up until 2013! And there is strong evidence that his father also lied and uses a dead man's social security #; and that he is somehow connected with the assassination of president JFK

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